Senator Cory Booker

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In which John Heilemann talks with Cory Booker, Demoratic senator from New Jersey. In the first single-topic episode of the podcast, Heilemann and Booker do a deep dive into an issue that's been central to Booker's career: criminal justice reform and racial equity. They discuss the Derek Chauvin trial and their fears if justice isn't served; the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, just recently passed by the House, and the criticism it has received from Black Lives Matter and others on left for not going far enough; the legalization of marijuana and the need to address the widespread inequities in America's drug laws; and Booker's view of Biden as ally in the cause of police, prison, and sentencing reform despite Biden's checkered history on these issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyalman here and welcome to Hell in High Water, my podcast from the
0:18.1	Recon and I Heart Radio, with big ups to the one and only Rizza for our dope theme music.
0:23.4	With the trial Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd now underway for its third
0:26.9	week in Minneapolis and with Joe Biden last week announcing a number of measures to deal
0:31.3	with gun violence and urging Congress to take more dramatic action, we thought it was about
0:36.5	time to try it out something we have been wanting to do for a while here on the podcast,
0:41.3	which is to undertake an episode dedicated to a single topic with a guest for whom that
0:46.4	topic is an area of special expertise or lifelong passion or ideally both.
0:52.2	And so on this week's episode we give you a deep dive into a matter of great national
0:57.1	importance that also happens to be much on our minds and in the news right now, now it
1:01.9	would be criminal justice reform as it intersects with racial equity.
1:06.2	And to address that matter we have with us if I do say so myself be perfect guest.
1:12.1	The junior United States Senator from the state of New Jersey, Cory Booker.
1:16.0	The state of black America is interwoven, interconnected and interdependent.
1:21.8	It really is one America and white America does not thrive if Latino America doesn't thrive
1:28.7	or black America is just really one destiny here.
1:34.7	It is fair to say that no issue is more central to Cory Booker's career in politics and
1:38.9	policy than criminal justice reform.
1:41.4	It is also fair to say that no member of the US Senate knows more about or cares more
1:46.8	about criminal justice reform than Cory Booker.
1:50.3	Even in Washington DC and raised in New Jersey, graduate of Stanford University in Yale
1:54.3	Law School in a former Rhodes Scholar, Booker began his career in public service on the New
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